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太子瑞應本起經 2.7

太子瑞應本起經 2.7

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Classical Chinese

2.7

「佛得定意,一切知見,坐自念言:『是實微妙,難知難明,甚難得也。高而無上,廣不可極;淵而無下,深不可測;大包天地,細入無間。昔定光佛時,別我為佛,名釋迦文。今果得之。從無數劫,勤苦所求,適今得耳。自念宿命,諸所施為,慈孝仁義,禮敬誠信,中正守善,虛心學聖,柔弱淨意,行六度無極,布施持戒,忍辱精進,一心智慧。習四等心,慈悲喜護;養育眾生,如視赤子;承事諸佛,積德無量;累劫勤苦,不望其功,今悉自得。』喜自說曰:

"Having attained the concentrated mind, the Buddha knew and saw all things. Sitting, he thought to himself: 'This reality is subtle and marvelous, difficult to know and difficult to understand, exceedingly difficult to attain. High, it has nothing above it; vast, it cannot be bounded; abyssal, it has no bottom; deep, it cannot be fathomed; broad, it encompasses heaven and earth; fine, it enters where there is no space between. Formerly, in the time of Dīpaṃkara Buddha, he distinguished me to become a Buddha named Śākyamuni. Now it has indeed been attained. Sought with diligence and hardship through countless kalpas, it has only just now been attained. Recalling my previous lives, all that I practiced—kindness, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, respect, sincerity, trustworthiness, rectitude, maintaining goodness, humbling the mind to learn from the sages, gentleness, purifying the mind, practicing the six perfections without limit: giving, keeping the precepts, patience, vigor, singleness of mind, and wisdom; cultivating the four immeasurables: loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity; nurturing living beings as if looking upon infants; serving the Buddhas and accumulating immeasurable virtue; through repeated kalpas of diligent hardship, seeking no reward for its merit—now all this has naturally been attained.' Joyfully, he spoke for himself, saying:

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